Supreme Heir Son-in-law
Chapter 74 The Money is Gone

Chapter 74: Chapter 74 The Money is Gone

"Go." Li Chengcai shook his head madly, controlling Zhao Chunhua’s behavior. At the other end of the sofa, Li Dacheng frowned deeply, scrutinizing Xu Ke, who sat motionless like a mountain, making it impossible to discern his depths.

At this moment, Xu Ke exuded an aura and charisma reminiscent of a noble son meticulously nurtured within an ancient Chinese family. This Xu Ke was vastly different from the one he had previously encountered at the Lin Family. An inexplicable tremor ran through Li Dacheng’s heart, and every cell in his body screamed for him to leave.

He didn’t know what had happened to Xu Ke, but the only certainty was that this man was no longer someone they could beat and abuse at will, and even more so, he emanated an inexplicable danger. Li Dacheng had always trusted his sixth sense, which had helped him avoid plenty of disasters over the past decades. So when Zhao Chunhua narrowly escaped Li Chengcai’s restraint to target Xu Ke again, he put a stop to it.

Xu Ke looked at the plate raised above his head and felt a tinge of regret as it came crashing down. If the plate had fallen, he would have had enough reason to convince himself to hit a woman. After all, his upbringing had never allowed him to hit a woman proactively, but an appropriate passive defense was within a reasonable range. Alas, what a missed opportunity.

Xu Ke raised his eyes, looking at Li Dacheng, who had stopped everything from happening, with a half-smile.

Under Xu Ke’s scrutiny, Li Dacheng felt a chill envelop him, involuntarily shivering. The rash on his body even started to burn painfully.

"Husband, why are you stopping me? That little bastard made our Chengcai like this. If I don’t beat him up, I’ll never be able to swallow my anger." Zhao Chunhua yelled, waving the hand holding the plate around but accidentally hitting Li Dacheng, causing him to inhale sharply from the pain.

"Have you had enough of fooling around, old woman? Let’s go home and stop making a fool of ourselves here." Li Dacheng grabbed Zhao Chunhua’s wrist, speaking harshly. He appeared exceptionally fierce, but beads of sweat seeped from his temples. He could clearly feel Xu Ke’s gaze behind him, as if two sharp knives were stabbing into his spine, making him want to scream.

"But..."

"No buts, let’s go!" Li Dacheng gave Zhao Chunhua no chance to speak, signaling to Li Chengcai. The father and son quickly and swiftly took a bag of money and dragged Zhao Chunhua away. No one bothered asking Xu Ke to see them out, as if they had forgotten the free labor in the room.

Soon, the sound of a door closing came from the entrance. Zhao Chunhua’s voice was muffled outside the door, and the room suddenly became silent.

Xu Ke looked towards the direction the Li family trio had gone, his pupils so dark they reflected no light. After a long time, a vague chuckle came from him.

Originally, Xu Ke planned to teach the family a lesson before sending them away, ensuring they would never dare set foot in Luo City again. But unexpectedly, the seemingly shameless Li family father and son had a keen sense of danger like small animals, forcibly dragging Zhao Chunhua away and glossing over the dislocated jaw incident as if nothing had happened. This move indeed caught Xu Ke off guard, but how could he easily change the outcome he had already set for this family?

"The plan has a slight change. Send a few pickpockets and some thugs, take all their money, and beat them up before kicking them out of Luo City. I don’t want to see them in Luo City again in my lifetime." Xu Ke said lazily, eyes lowered as he watched the sunlight streaming through the window.

On the other end of the line, Xu Jie quickly and coldly responded, "Understood."

It was unclear when it started, but Xu Ke not only entrusted all matters of the Xu Corporation’s subsidiary companies in Luo City to Xu Jie, only stepping in for major matters concerning the company’s life and death, but he also handed over some shady business to Xu Jie.

Xu Ke knew there was more to Xu Jie than met the eye, but he never questioned it, and Xu Jie never explained. The two tacitly maintained their silence.

Honestly, Xu Ke didn’t care who Xu Jie was, as long as she continued to obediently work for him. Who she was didn’t matter, and similarly, if she were to betray him, Xu Ke would show no mercy.

After giving his instructions, Xu Ke left the house. Meanwhile, the Li family father and son, believing they had escaped danger, soon discovered their misfortune seemed only to have just begun.

First, they went to the hospital to fix Li Chengcai’s jaw. Not long after arriving at the train station, they inexplicably got into a dispute with a group of strong young men. Soon, the Li family father and son, including Zhao Chunhua, were beaten black and blue and left lying on the ground. When the police arrived to handle the incident, the young men took advantage of the crowd at the train station to flee.

The youngest, Li Chengcai, was the first to regain his senses. As he got up from the ground, he discovered that the bag containing the fifty thousand they had treasured all the way had vanished into thin air.

"Dad, Mom! Our money is gone. Our fifty thousand is gone!" Li Chengcai ignored his pain, hysterically shouting.

Zhao Chunhua, who had just caught her breath, fainted upon hearing the news, but the Li family father and son no longer had the mood to care for her. The police officers who had just returned from the chase engaged in another round of investigation upon hearing the news.

Unfortunately, the scene was too chaotic at the time, and no one paid attention to an inconspicuous black bag. It was almost certain that the money was unrecoverable. Upon hearing the news, Zheng Chunhua burst into tears, first cursing the thieves, and then clamoring to go back to the Li family for another fifty thousand.

"Have you had enough? We can’t go back to the Li family. Let’s go home."

"Mom, Dad’s right. We can’t go back to the Li family no matter what. Let’s go home." Li Chengcai nodded in agreement with Li Dacheng’s suggestion. Now, just the thought of the Li family brought back memories of Xu Ke’s expressionless face dislocating his jaw, and thinking of Xu Ke made his jaw hurt.

Li Dacheng’s desire to go home wasn’t only because of Li Chengcai’s dislocated jaw. He recalled everything that had happened since leaving the Lin family, feeling that it was all too coincidental. Why was it that among so many people in the lobby, they specifically targeted themselves, and why did they take nothing but the bag containing the fifty thousand?

Unless all of this was orchestrated by someone, and in Luo City, the only people they knew were their relatives; they knew no one else. Recalling the moment he locked eyes with Xu Ke before leaving, Li Dacheng felt a chill down his spine. His intuition told him this had everything to do with Xu Ke.

Although he didn’t know what prompted Xu Ke’s significant change, Li Dacheng realized that Xu Ke was no longer someone he could afford to provoke. Even if it meant losing a profitable avenue, returning to Luo City was no longer an option for their family.

Understanding everything, Li Dacheng ignored Zhao Chunhua’s objections, took her, and boarded the pre-booked train to leave Luo City. From then on, they truly never set foot in Luo City again, but that’s a story for another time.